Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
The United States government recently blocked virologist Ron Fouchier from releasing the blueprints to develop heavily weaponized H5N1 bird flu virus thanks to pressure stemming from the alternative media, but now a new group of scientific labs have begun to recreate the findings and may release them to the public.
The experiments involve mutating the virus a total of 5 times, making the strain highly contagious between ferrets — the very animal model used to study human flu infection.
Bioterrorism experts state that a public release of the data could result in a widespread pandemic of weaponized H5N1 that could endanger millions of lives.
This is highlighted by the severe mortality rate of the disease, which has killed more than 1 in every 2 people that it infected. Paul Keim, chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, explained how volatile of a weapon the mutated bird flu could become:
‘This is such a dangerous biological weapon, it would not be controllable. Whoever used it would doubtlessly decimate their own people as well,’ Keim said.
Scientists Continue to Push for Bioweapon Release
Virologist Ron Fouchier, whose H5N1 research was originally funded and later shutdown by the U.S. government, is still pushing for the information to become public. Fouchier recently published an opinion piece in the journal Science calling for the research to be released in order to “better prepare for a scenario where the virus could mutate and become more deadly.” Amazingly, this is exactly what could happen if the findings were released in the first place, as confirmed by bioterrorism experts.
Dr. Thomas Inglesby, a bioterrorism expert and director of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, notes that to release the weaponized virus is a severe threat to world health:
‘It’s just a bad idea for scientists to turn a lethal virus into a lethal and highly contagious virus. And it’s a second bad idea for them to publish how they did it so others can copy it,’ says Inglesby.
Ron Fouchier and the scientists rushing to release the blueprints needed to create this highly weaponized H5N1 virus simply have zero disregard for public health. When even the U.S. government has to block their own research to prevent a global catastrophe, it is quite apparent that releasing this data could lead to a severe and preventable pandemic.
